-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- President Robert Mugabe 's Zanu PF party dismissed Monday a `` confidential '' cable released by WikiLeaks that claims the Zimbabwean leader has cancer .

WikiLeaks claimed Friday that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono had told the former U.S. ambassador Christopher Dell during a private meeting in 2006 that Mugabe had prostate cancer that had spread to other organs .

`` If he was that ill -LRB- in 2006 -RRB- , how come he is still going strong ? I have seen him for a long time and even last week , he has no health problems . There is a lot of things that are not true in that , '' said Rugare Gumbo , Zanu PF spokesperson , referring to the WikiLeaks cable .

The cables claimed that Grace , Mugabe 's wife , had told Gono that the 87-year-old was `` out of it about 75 % of the time . ''

`` The governor -LRB- Gono -RRB- confided that Mugabe appeared to be deteriorating mentally and losing his capacity to balance factional interests , '' Dell wrote in his report after meeting Gono who has repeatedly denied claims of having an affair with Grace . `` She -LRB- Grace -RRB- wanted him -LRB- Mugabe -RRB- to step down . ''

Gono did not answer several calls made to him by CNN .

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Zimbabwe leader has no health problems , party spokesman says

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Cable says ex-U.S. envoy told in 2006 that Mugabe has prostate cancer

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Mugabe 's wife said he was `` out of it , '' cable says